Website Security News
We handle an enormous number of SEO spam infections here at Sucuri. In Q3 of 2016, approximately 37% of all website infection cases were related to SEO spam campaigns through PHP, database injections or .htaccess redirects. An SEO spam infection can be devastating to a…
Read More about Malware Serving SEO Spam from External Sites
Just over a week ago, WordPress released version 4.7.3 to patch multiple security issues. Despite the automatic update feature provided by many hosting companies, there are still many WordPress websites…
Read More about SEO Spam Campaign Exploiting WordPress REST API Vulnerability
We have been monitoring a new campaign specifically targeting WordPress sites, using hundreds of them for SEO spam distribution. We call it the XM1RPC campaign due to the common backdoor…
Remediating over 500 infected sites per day, we see attacks executed at varying levels of complexity. The tactics attackers use to compromise a site provide insight into their motives. Some…
Read More about Malicious WordPress Subdirectory Installs For SEO Spam
Blackhat SEO spam comes in many forms, and one of the most nefarious is hijacked search results. This happens when search engines crawl and display unwanted content in the title…
Read More about Analyzing and Cleaning Hijacked Google SEO Spam Results
Ten years ago the internet looked very different than it does now. Today, web designers have more options and standards to make a website stand out. Do you recall when…
Read More about SEO Spam Technique Designed to Avoid Detection
Here at Sucuri we handle countless cases of SEO spam. This malware involves a website being compromised in order to spread (mostly pharmaceutical) advertisements by linking visitors to unwanted websites…
Every once in a while we get a glimpse into rare and strange behavior that doesn’t involve the website being hacked, but causes major problems for website owners. We have…
Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites selling luxury goods. Most of…
Read More about Bogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam
Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but had no time to write them? Or maybe you were just too…
Read More about Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!
We recently published an article about an interesting case where a very popular WordPress Plugin (Social Media Widget), with more than 900,000 downloads, got sold and the new owners decided…
Read More about When Good Plugins Go Bad – SEO Spam on Joomla Websites
